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People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.
The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it has spotted these elusive waves?

Vinton G. Cerf - The inventor of TCP/IP.
Vinton G. Cerf is now vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. In the early days, Cerf was a DOD DARPA program manager funding various groups to develop TCP/IP technology.

Here is a neat set of videos ilustrating how the BBS system worked. People were excited by the possibility of "one day" everyone could be meeting online. If you would say something like that in the 80's, you wouldn't get many friends. Now it looks like the way you MEET your FRIENDS and guess what... they are not nerds. Today we have Internet users...

Our kids don't even know of a world without Internet, but BBS played a very important role on terraforming the future:

Drupal project is moving it's repo to git.
Git has the best version control and workflow for big communities and developers.
Git is to be embraced by the Drupal community and taken to the core of things.
I already moved all code from our repos into git also.

A part from HTML 5 being very strange and possibly creating unspecified code it makes life for programmers easy, but also lazy...
Do we like that?
Good points, bad points. We will be there to see!
Jeffrey Zeldman @drupalcon